• CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Celebrate is not the right word. Trump is just the crash test dummy front man. The entire administration and republican party have lost their minds/shown their true colors. It’s not time to celebrate. There’s still a lot of work to be done.

    I will however drink my best bottle of wine and reflect on the moment.

  • masterspace@lemmy.ca
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    9 days ago

    I won’t.

    He was a predictable product of the American culture / political system. His death doesn’t fix anything that caused him to rise.

  • MutantTailThing@lemmy.world
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    Personally I’d like to see him live till 100 and watch his fat ass get dragged from courtroom to courtroom in a wheelchair with an oxygen hose up his nose.

  • TootSweet@lemmy.world
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    Trump posting “good, I’m glad he’s dead” about Mueller changed my view on this. Before, I would have said celebrating Trump’s death would be encouraging some very problematic tendencies. That “the adult in the room” shouldn’t be driven by spite. Now, I suppose my position is that I don’t really think it’s “wrong” to celebrate his death. By doing so, especially by doing so in his own words, we highlight just how toxic a force he was on the U.S. and on the rest of the world. Celebrating his death may well be one of the better acts of defiance against fascism and authoritarianism one can make. If celebrating Hitler’s death isn’t wrong, perhaps so isn’t celebrating Trump’s.

    And yet, would a stabbing victim celebrate the moment the knife is removed from the wound? Surely that time is better spent staunching the bleeding and dressing the wound than rebuking the knife or the stabber.

    So, I suppose my answer is “I hope with discretion.” I hope to be smart enough to be able to discern when and how to celebrate constructively and when and how is less helpful.

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      9 days ago

      That’s true! With everybody walking around smiling, Maybe he really can bring this country together!

  • moondoggie@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    I’m going to schedule an appointment with my physical therapist because all those high fives are gonna be hell on my hand, elbow, and shoulder.

  • 「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」@sh.itjust.works
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    10 days ago

    Hello Mr. FBI.

    I am a pacifist and I do not celebrate deaths and will obviously mourn for our beloved falled leader…

    turns around to my friend and whispers

    “are those men in suits gone yet?”

  • Mr Fish@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    When Charlie Kirk died my attitude was “I’m glad he’s stopped doing what he was doing, but I’m sad that it took him dying for that to happen”. My attitude with Trump will likely be similar.

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    10 days ago

    There’s gonna be a few stops to pick up various supplies before an absolutely amazing dinner and smoke session with my wife.

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    I will never celebrate the death of another human. Not even Trump.

    I will be glad that the world just got better, and curious about whether the US fascists can find another mouthpiece so successful as he.

    But his death isn’t likely to change much in a party he rebuilt to venerate him.